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"Lawmakers Take Up $5B Colorado River Settlement" [1]

"A House Natural Resources subcommittee will review a $5 billion deal to ensure tribal water rights in northeastern Arizona, including funds for a new pipeline connecting Lake Powell to tribal reservation in the Colorado River Basin."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [12], 07/23/2024
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"Highly Infectious Poliovirus Found In Gaza Sewage Samples" [13]

"The poliovirus has been found in sewage samples from Gaza putting thousands of people living in crowded displaced persons’ camps at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease that can cause deformities and paralysis."

Disasters [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Infrastructure [6]
Military [16]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [18]
Waste [19]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
Middle East [20]
Source: Guardian [21], 07/23/2024
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Hawaiian Electric, Others Agree To Proposed $4B Maui Wildfire Deal: Report [22]

"Hawaiian Electric Industries and other defendants in lawsuits over the Maui wildfires in Hawaii have tentatively agreed to pay more than $4 billion in settlement amount, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [14]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [24]
Source: Reuters [25], 07/19/2024
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"New York City Bill Would Mandate Air-Conditioning for Tenants" [26]

"As New York City endures its third heat wave of the year, a city councilman plans to introduce a bill this week that would require landlords to buy, install and maintain air-conditioning units or cooling systems for tenants during the summer, with fines of up to $1,250 per day for noncompliance."

Climate Change [3]
Disasters [14]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Justice [4]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Public [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [27]
Source: NYTimes [28], 07/19/2024
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"The Electric Utility Screwing Over Texans" [29]

"CenterPoint wants customers to pay to climate-proof the grid—all while pouring millions of customer dollars into climate delay."

Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [23]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Journalism & Media [30]
Public [10]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Source: HEATED [32], 07/19/2024
  • Read more about "The Electric Utility Screwing Over Texans" [29]

"With Sewage Gushing Into Sea, US and Mexican Border Towns Plead For Help" [33]

"Each day, millions of gallons of sewage cascade through a canyon and into the Pacific Ocean just south of the U.S.-Mexican border. As any surfer in San Diego knows, summer swells that come from the south will push the toxic brew north."

Environmental Health [15]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
California [34]
Mexico [35]
Source: Reuters [36], 07/18/2024
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Meet The Californians In The First Class Of The American Climate Corps [37]

"At the start of summer, the White House swore in more than 9,000 members of the inaugural class of the American Climate Corps. The corps members are now serving across the country stifling wildfires, helping farms adapt to climate change, installing solar panels, conserving the country’s wildlands and, of course, helping climate organizations create some “hip” Instagram content."

Activism [38]
Climate Change [3]
Infrastructure [6]
People & Population [17]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
California [34]
Source: LA Times [39], 07/16/2024
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Quinault Nation Has Tried To Escape The Rising Pacific. Time Is Running Out [40]

"Standing water lies beneath the home Sonny Curley shares with his parents and three children on the Quinault reservation a few steps from the Pacific Ocean in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. The back deck is rotting, and black mold speckles the walls inside, leaving the 46-year-old fisherman feeling drained if he spends too much time in the house."

Climate Change [3]
Infrastructure [6]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [17]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Northwest (OR WA) [41]
Source: AP [42], 07/16/2024
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"West Virginia School Will Remain Open For Now Amid Toxic Groundwater Fears" [43]

"A small West Virginia school will remain open for now after a court temporarily blocked an effort to relocate classes due to the town’s contaminated groundwater being added to a national cleanup priority list."

Chemicals [44]
Consumer [45]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [5]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Source: AP [47], 07/16/2024
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US, Canada Agree On Modernizing 60-Year-Old Pact On Columbia River [48]

"The United States and Canada have reached an agreement in principle on modernizing a 60-year-old pact on Columbia River flood control and power generation, and work on draft amendments will begin in the coming weeks, they said on Thursday."

Environmental Justice [4]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Infrastructure [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Water & Oceans [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Canada [50]
Source: Reuters [51], 07/16/2024
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